Tawheed is the key

subhanallah, this dunya we are living in and this time we live in as muslims is a hard time and at the same time a very blessed time. its a time of trials and tribulations, a time for the ranks to be cleared..the believers from the munafiqeen etc..and its a blessed time because a lot of khayr is happening in the ummah. around 30 years ago muslims were in a deep sleep and far away from their deen, but alhamdulillaah now the table is turning bi idhnillaah and muslims have realized how precious their deen is and wat they have to do to protect it..

But for us to get our izzah and karamah back as we once had it like the times of the muslim khilafah we all have to sacrifice for this blessed deen and bear the trials that will come with it. Everything which is worth a lot, will cost you a lot. and for us to raise up the flag of tawheed high above everything will surely cost us a lot and will not come easily.

 The prophet saws told his sahaba that there will come a time where the reward for 1 person will be like the reward of 50 sahaba, and why subhanallaah?? because of what they go through and how much they sacrifice and bear for this deen. thats why our time is blessed because alhamdulillah its harsh times but the reward is great, may Allaah keep us firm and patient and allow us to reap the reward in this time, ameen.

So many people all over the world are being tested with trials the ummah havnt seen before, but inshallah its only a bushrah for this ummah. because theres so many blessing that comes with trials and it wakes up people from their deep sleep. look at what the sahaba had to sacrifice for the islam to be spread and for us to be muslims today..imagine if they gave up? likewise we have to go through the same trials for the sake of the muslim ummah and for islaam to be victorious..and it reminded me of what shaykh ayman al zawahiri hafithahullaah said about shaykh umar abdulrahman fakkalahu asrahu, that he is paying the taxes for islaam with his trials. some people have to go through trials for the sake of islaam and we have to be prepared for that as we never know wat is in await for us. and alhamdulillaah if you are being tested then take it as a bushra that you are inshallah on haq and you are not only benefitting yourself from these trials but the whole ummah, and only Allah knows the reward that is waiting for you in jannah…so glad tidings for you, be patient and stay firm bi idhnillaah and await the reward from Allaah..

And subhanallah we knew that by taking this path that Allah would send trials and tribulations to us and test our ikhlaas, so inshallaah with sabr and thabat Allah will make you a way out from your trials and change them with khayr and barakah, its just a matter of time.

And as Allah swt said in surat al ahzab:

 ”And when the believers saw AlAhzab (the Confederates), they said: “This is what Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad SAW) had promised us, and Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad SAW) had spoken the truth, and it only added to their faith and to their submissiveness (to Allah).”

so they knew that the nation of kufr would gather against them and when that happened they knew it was the promise of Allah, and subhanallah history will only repeat itself and we know that they will gather against us again so it should only increase us in firmess and imaan.

so bi ithnillaah glad tidings for you who are being tested, and the victory of Allaah is coming..its just a matter of time..

may Allah make me of those who act upon what they say, and may Allah keep me patient when the trials hit my road..

do not forget me in your duaas.

another ramadan have arrived alhamdulillaah, truly a blessing we should thank Allah for.

but while we break our fast with our families and loved ones, we should remember the prisoners who break their fasts alone and their families who are missing their father, brother, cousin etc..subhanallah we can never imagine how that is until we experience it ourselves. do not forget the brothers who are on the run whose families break their fast without knowing how and where there fathers are and in what condition they break their fast..

do not forget the mujahideen in ur duaas who are fasting while bombs are falling above their heads, and who might be under harsh conditions with little to break their fast with..

but subhanallah, even though they might be under harsh conditions, they´are the ones who really feel the beauty of ramadan. they are fasting while they are striving for the sake of this deen..they have abandoned the dunya for their akhira…

may this ramadan be filled with victories for the mujahideen, and a last ramadan for our prisoners in their cages..ameen

and do not forget me in ur duaa

 

The Role of the Women in Fighting the Enemies

Penned by the martyred commander of the Mujāhidīn in the Arabian Peninsula - Al-Hāfith, Al-Mujāhid

.Shaykh Yūsuf Bin Sālih Al-‘Uyayrī .

May Allāh have mercy upon him

At-Tibyān Publications

In the Name of Allah, the Most-Beneficent, the Most-Merciful

” … In these papers we will not focus on seeking out the details of all these obstacles and hindrances [to Jihād], but we will suffice ourselves by mentioning one hindrance that we see the Ummah is in need of removing quickly and before everything else. And that obstacle is the woman who is manifested as the mother, or the wife, or the daughter or the sister. They all fall under the Verse detailing the obstacles [to Jihād] [1]. And our research into the obstacle of the woman may not be new to her, but we will nevertheless address her in these papers and we will inform her that she is one of the biggest impediments before the Victory and Honour of Islām. And when we say that the woman is one of the greatest obstacles to the Victory of Islām, we must also mention the opposite notion, and it is that the woman is one of the primary and most influential factors in the Victory of Islām, with the condition that she fulfills her role with complete courage and sacrifice. And here we will transmit for her biographies that she must take as her example in order for Islām to become victorious.

Islam was not victorious in its radiant times over the disbelieving nations who were greater than it in power, in number, and in wealth except when the woman was up for the responsibility, for she is the one who raises her children upon the Jihād, and she is the one who guards the man’s honour and wealth if he goes out for Jihād, and she is the one who is patient and helps her children and her husband remain patient in the pursuance of this path. So the saying, “Behind every great man is a woman” is true of the women at that time, so we could say, “Behind every great Mujāhid is a woman.”

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Abdullaah Ibn Abbas (radiallahu anhu) said: “You who commit a sin, do not feel secure about the results, for what goes along with the sin is more serious than the sin itself.Your lack of shame before the angels, who witness you when you commit the sin, is more serious than the sin itself.Your laughter when you sin, as you forget the punishment of Allah is more serious than the sin itself. Your delight if you get a chance to sin, is more serious than the sin itself. Even your disappointment, if you miss a chance to sin is more serious than the sin itself.”

 Say: “Allah speaketh the Truth: follow the religion of Abraham, the sane in faith; he was not of the Pagans.” [3:95]
 

“Abraham was not a Jew nor yet a Christian; but he was true in Faith, and bowed his will to Allah’s (Which is Islam), and he joined not gods with Allah” [3:67]

Allah [swt] have ordered his prophet [saws] and his followers to follow the Millah of Ibraheem [as].  He was alone against his people but stil he stood up for haqq and he sacrificed everything for the sake of Allah. No matter what Allah [swt] asked of him he did, he was asked to slaughter his son and he obeyed but Allah saved him. How much did Allah test him with but he still followed the commands of Allah, would we do the same?

Think about it, salughtering your own son, leaving your beloved wife and son in the desert etc. But he remained firm and he succeded in the trials. we will be tested aswel, but will we remain firm and stick to the Deen of Allah or will we give up when it becomes tough?

So those who are tested and remain firm are the true followers of the Millah of Ibraheem [as].

“Who can be better in religion than one who submits his whole self to Allah, does good, and follows the way of Abraham the true in Faith? For Allah did take Abraham for a friend.” [4:125]
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He understood tawheed and the rejection of every taghoot and he didnt hide that. He destroyed the false gods and called the people to worship Allah alone. and that is the example we are asked to follow in the Qur’an:

“There is for you an excellent example (to follow) in Abraham and those with him, when they said to their people: “We are clear of you and of whatever ye worship besides Allah: we have rejected you, and there has arisen, between us and you, enmity and hatred for ever,- unless ye believe in Allah and Him alone” [60:4]

Some people are afraid of calling kafirs by their name, or telling ahlul bid’ah that they are upon bid’ah etc, but subhan’Allah are we afraid of telling the truth as it is? thats not the sunnah of our beloved messenger or his companions. the prophet [saws] used to curse the gods of quraish and their fathers in front of them he didnt fear loosing followers. so those who claim that its darar for the da’wah, i ask them by Allah are they more guided than the prophet [saws]?

A Question we should ask ourselves, are we among the true followers of the millah of Ibraheem?

For the Pleasure of My Lord,
The Prisons Come Perfumed

Written by Shaykh Abū Muhammad Al-Maqdisī

General Intelligence Prison Facility, Jordan – Cell No. 63
‘Eid Al-Adh’hā 1414 H

(May Allāh hasten his release)

At-Tibyān Publications

Dear Brother, who dwells in these prisons
To you I write with distresses,

If to Allāh you hold fast
Then what harm will a misfortune of time do to you?

Beware dear Brother, of making your corrupting your thoughts
Regarding the Promise of the Deity, Mighty and Strong,

Verily, He has promised the Believers with Salvation
As He saved YÅ«nus from the dark depths of the belly of the Fish,

Dear Brother, before you, passed the ancient ones
These prisons are but like those prisons,

Did not YÅ«suf dwelled in them for a phase
And Mūsā, the tyrants threatened him with it,

And such was the Messenger of the Generous Deity
To imprison him, the pagans plotted,

So my Lord saved him through his Hijrah
In the company of that trustworthy friend,

And in their footsteps, the Believers traversed
Like Ahmad, that firm Imām,

And likewise Ibn Taymiyyah was blessed with it
In the fortress of Shām, as a prisoner he dwelled,

Hundreds of thousands of the True Faithful
Dwelled for a time in these prisons,

Be not weak, dear Brother, nor lose hope
When your time comes, nor submit,

Strengthen yourself by remembering the Deity, Most Supreme
And hasten in memorizing the Manifest Book,

That is for your heart a secure stronghold
And this is for your spirit an assisting provision,

These are hardships, soon they will all cease
And remaining from it will be various fruits and benefits,

So if they intimidate you, and they threaten you
Never weaken, or soften to them,

And even if they insult you, and they torture you
And if they beat you, submit not,

You are not the first to be tortured
For a Mighty Religion and a Manifest Legislation,

Nor are you alone on this Path
For there are countless caravans throughout the years,

And if an ‘Eid passes by, and a son is born
And months rotate, while you are imprisoned,

Do not grieve O Brother of the Righteous Ones
Of departing from family and losing children,

And if they forbid you from their visits
And likewise their letters never appear,

So if this is for a Lord and Religion
Then where is the patience, where is the certainty!?

And where are your past speeches
Regarding the (weight of the) Millah of that Trustworthy Messenger?!

That Intimate Friend went willingly
To slaughter his son, a clear trial,

On a magnificent, noble day like today
Without any anxiety, he put him down upon his forehead,

So my Lord saved him through His Good Will
And ransomed him with a fat sheep,

But you, your sons are in a carefree life
And diversion and amusement, and a secured home,

Yet you have not been asked to slaughter them
Rather, merely for patience of a temporary separation,

For verily, they are in the care of a Merciful Lord
And you are in solitude with Him and Faith,

For the Pleasure of a Lord and assisting a Religion
Life and all children become insignificant,

For the Pleasure of a Lord, Mighty and Generous
The prisons come perfumed, and the bitter come sweet…

Captivity, Imprisonment and Trials

By Shaykh Abu Qatādah Al-Filastīnī

May Allāh hasten his release

Is prison a necessary stage for the Dā’Ä« (the caller to Allāh)? Is it a praised rank, whereby the one that is included in it is better than the one who isn’t because of having entered this stage?

From what there is no doubt about is that the path of Da’wah is filled with dangers and hardships. Allāh, Ta’ālā, said:

أَحَسِبَ النَّاسُ أَن يُتْرَكُوا أَن يَقُولُوا آمَنَّا وَهُمْ لَا يُفْتَنُون َوَلَقَدْ فَتَنَّا الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ صَدَقُوا وَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ الْكَاذِبِينَ

Do people think that they will be left alone because they say: “We believe,” and will not be tested. And We indeed tested those who were before them. And Allāh will certainly make (it) known (the truth of) those who are true, and will certainly make (it) known (the falsehood of) those who are liars, (although Allāh knows all that before putting them to test)[1]

That is because the Dā’ī comes to the people with matters that are new, and he calls them to abandon their profits and their agreements, and he is grieved over the course and the path they are upon, and this is a tremendous matter for the people because he challenges their principles and their greatest convictions. Therefore, the Dā’Ä« is met with vehemence and violence. And for this reason, hardships separate the ranks [of the people], and through them, the people return to their rightful positions without ambiguity or falsification. Trials make the standing of the people known, and endurance is only for one who is patient. Allāh, Ta’ālā, said:

وَجَعَلْنَا مِنْهُمْ أَئِمَّةً يَهْدُونَ بِأَمْرِنَا لَمَّا صَبَرُوا وَكَانُوا بِآيَاتِنَا يُوقِنُونَ

And We made from among them (Children of Israel), leaders, giving guidance under Our Command, when they were patient and used to believe with certainty in Our Ayāt (proofs)[2]

Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allāh have Mercy upon him, said in the exegesis of this Verse, “With patience and certainty, leadership is attained.” So, patience prevents rashness, and certainty prevents despair. So the Dā’Ä« has two strengths that fortify him against mistakes. A strength that drives him – and it is certainty, and a strength that bides him time – and it is patience; certainty about the forthcoming promise, and patience in the trials presently occurring.

Tribulations and tests are manifest in every calling, and they surround the insubordinate ones, whether their insubordination was with Truth or with falsehood. It is not only the Prophets or their followers who meet hardships in the path of their Da’wah, but rather, all those who come to the people with something new. But what distinguishes the people of Truth from others regarding this is that the difficulties [faced by] the Prophets and their followers is for the sake of Allāh:

ذَلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ لَا يُصِيبُهُمْ ظَمَأٌ وَلَا نَصَبٌ وَلَا مَخْمَصَةٌ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَلَا يَطَئُونَ مَوْطِئًا يَغِيظُ الْكُفَّارَ وَلَا يَنَالُونَ مِنْ عَدُوٍّ نَيْلًا إِلَّا كُتِبَ لَهُمْ بِهِ عَمَلٌ صَالِحٌ

That is because they suffer neither thirst nor fatigue, nor hunger in the Cause of Allāh, nor they take any step to raise the anger of disbelievers nor inflict any injury upon an enemy but is written to their credit as a deed of righteousness.[3]

But as for the others, their hardships are a plague for them, as Allāh, Ta’ālā, said:

تَصْلَى نَارًا حَامِيَةً عَامِلَةٌ نَاصِبَةٌ

“Labouring (hard in the worldly life by worshipping others besides Allāh), weary (in the Hereafter with humility and disgrace). They will enter in the hot blazing Fire”. [4]

And as He, Ta’ālā, said:

إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا يُنْفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُمْ لِيَصُدُّوا عَنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ فَسَيُنْفِقُونَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ حَسْرَةً ثُمَّ يُغْلَبُونَ وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا إِلَى جَهَنَّمَ يُحْشَرُونَ

Verily, those who disbelieve spend their wealth to hinder (men) from the Path of Allāh, and so will they continue to spend it; but in the end it will become an anguish for them. Then they will be overcome. And those who disbelieve will be gathered unto Hell[5]

So tribulations are manifest in the course of the Da’wāt (callings), because the presence of the enemies are from the indications of Allāh’s Victory to His Awliyā‘. Allāh, Ta’ālā, said:

وَكَذَلِكَ جَعَلْنَا لِكُلِّ نَبِيٍّ عَدُوًّا شَيَاطِينَ الْإِنْسِ وَالْجِنِّ

And so We have appointed for every Prophet enemies - Shayāt īn (devils) among mankind and Jinn[6]

And it is one of the implications of the Name of Allāh: Al-Muntaqim (the Avenger).

The disparity amongst people is a cosmic Sunnah, and so is their scrambling so that each one of them achieves the goals he is striving towards. And the equilibrium between the two parties comes through the attainment of the Victory and the defeat extended in the Qur’ān. There is no Divine injunction except that it is an element from the elements of Victory, and there is no violation of the Sharī’ah except that it is a factor from the factors of defeat.

Prison is one of the manifestations of tribulation, and is one of the forms of torment with which every party threatens the other, as Fir’awn menacingly said to Mūsā, Peace be upon him,

قَالَ لَئِنِ اتَّخَذْتَ إِلَهًا غَيْرِي لَأَجْعَلَنَّكَ مِنَ الْمَسْجُونِينَ

(Fir’awn) said: “If you choose an Ilāh (god) other than me, I will certainly put you among the prisoners.”[7]

And it was one of the choices of Quraysh in their torment of the Messenger of Allāh, Peace and Blessings be upon him;

وَإِذْ يَمْكُرُ بِكَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لِيُثْبِتُوكَ أَوْ يَقْتُلُوكَ أَوْ يُخْرِجُوك

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And (remember) when the disbelievers plotted against you (O Muhammad) to imprison you, or to kill you, or to get you out (from Makkah) [8]

And this is because prison is one of the forms of psychological and physical torment, and it shackles the will of the human being and prohibits him from exercising his civil and human [rights]. And for the Dā’Ä«, it is even more unbearable and fatiguing because it separates between the Dā’ī and the surrounding he needs for his Da’wah. The work of the Dā’Ä« is the light within the people, and [it is] teaching them what is good, and winning followers for his call, and advancing his call to the individuals on the way. So prison is a deprivation for him of all this because the Dā’ī is isolated from his surroundings so as to prevent him from impacting and aquiring [followers].

In this contemporary estrangement (Ghurbah), the callers began to call to Allāh and the Sunnah of vindication has been completed between the Party of Hāq and the party of Bātil, and the Tāghūt has filled the prisons with the callers, and the forms of tribulation have recurred. And until now, [many] large groups have been put in prison. But what did prison do to them?

The prison is like a vessel whose colour is established depending on the colour of what is within it. Some of them deteriorated and fell, and usually, those are a minority that are not noticed. But the majority emerged from prison carrying memories of pain and torment, emerging to write to the people Karbala-like memoirs, full of weeping and lamentation, every one of the [writers] attempts to draw the readers’ emotions towards him with his work, and [attempts] to win their pity over it. And there is a form of literature found in the Islāmic libraries that exemplify this form of art, that of weeping and Karbala-like lamentation. And the intention behind this is to hang medals over the chests so as to indicate that this man has been tortured and beaten. And until now, there has not emerged from this afflicted group a work or works resulting from their experience that may be a provision for the coming generation.

So prison is a trial; it will either break [you], or squeeze [you], or profit [you] so that the imprisoned one will emerge purified of all impurities – impurities of thought and impurities within his Nafs, so that his insight ascends, and his Nafs is polished in its development and training. The one that is tested should not be praised except according to the extent he benefited from the trial. He is not praised and sought after in and of himself, for the person might deteriorate within [prison], or he might emerge from it just as he entered it – ignorant, blind, and with bad character, or he might emerge having risen in rank while he was in it. And all of this depends on the person and how he looks at the phases and manifestations that pass him by in life. And prison is not a praiseworthy stage, nor is it something that a person should seek so as to be better than those close to him; rather he should look to the magnitude of benefit to be gained from such an experience.

- Al-Jihād Wal-Ijtihād 102-104

[1] Al-‘Ankabūt : 2-3

[2] As-Sajdah : 24

[3] At-Tawbah : 120

[4] Al-Ghāshiyah : 3-4

[5] Al-Anfāl : 36

[6] Al-An’ām : 112

[7] Ash-Shu’arā : 29

[8] Al-Anfāl : 30

-This was written by a dear sis- 

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Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabara katuh

SubhanAllah the other day i was sitting thinking of the situation of our ummah and everything that is happening
SubhanAllah i was sitting in my lounge room and i just got news that 10 brothers had been arrested some were husbands of friends of mine and i could hear the lebanese army bombing the muslims in naher al bared very heavily as if they were the dajals of this time…
and i was so distressed then athan aser was calling and i broke down saying what a shame to the land of sham !!!!!
what a disgrace that i can hear the athan above me while on my right muslims are getting bombed and killed and on my left brothers are getting arrested for there deen and families torn apart and women left helplesly alone !!!!!!
how has the land of sham come to this how??!!!
and it has come down to a few aspects and one is our men have lost their GHEERAH!!!!

where are our men like zubair and sa’ad bin thabet R.A???
where are our men that will defend our women like the prophet s.a.w did he declared war!!!
when the jew put the table on the womens hijab and her 3awrah showed.. but sisters what did it mean by 3awrah? THE TIP OF HER HAIR!!!
NA3AM the tip of her hair!!! la hawla wala quwatta illa billlah what can we say about the major 3awrah of our sisters that have been shown??

where are the likes of mu3tasem that sent out a whole army in defense of a women that got slapped on the cheeks by an enemy of Allah!!! yes one slap !!! what kind of BEATINGS and TORTURE do our sisters have to endure
for the men to flinch?!!
where is the gheerah of our men in defense of these sisters that so easly could be their mother ,sister, aunty daughter or wife etc……

But sisters I also ask how can a man have gheerah on the ummah if he has non over his women at home?!!!

So sisters bring your sons up to know what geerah is and dont discourage him if he is telling you mama this is showing or why are u wearing that ?
dont say it\s not your concern what your sister is weary !! if it\s not his then who’s is it??
get him used to Not seeing his sister or mother wearing revealing cloths
get him used to answering the phone ,paying at the shops and asking who is it at the door instead of you or his sister.

instill in him the seeds of islamic gheerah so he can grow up to have it for this ummah!!

sisters i want to tell you a story about an example of gheerah but this story did not happen in the time of the salf or tabi’een or sahabah not even the time of the rasool S>A>W

BUT at pre islam jailiyyah to show us how the ppl of jahiliyah had more gheerah than our muslim men!!!!!

A chief of a tribe was sitting beside his wife in his tent when his son came in and informed him that the chief of the neighboring tribe had arrived to come and talk about a solution to the two tribes problems
as both tribes did not want o go to war so this was the last oppertunity they had to discuss this matter.
he told his wife to leave the majlis and called for his nephew to bring in the guests they came in and the chief of the neighboring tribe was about to sit when the chief said please dont sit there sit here and he pointed to a place close to it
after discussing the matter and both tribes came to an agreement they left
the chiefs nephew looked at his uncle and said: 3ami why did you do such a thing?? as tell the other chief to change place
for you know that in it’s self could have caused war for ou disrespected him?
the chief said by the one who created the heavens war is more easier on me than a man sitting on a place still warm from my wife’s buttocks!!!

SubhanAllah and this an example of pre islam
if i was to write the post islam there would not be enough space

ya Allah instill in our sons and men gheerah for your sake and let them be from those who have gheerah on this deen ameen…

wassalamu alaikum

Shaykh Abu Qatadah Said:

 “It is upon us to attain the aqeedah of jihad, the spirit of jihaad and the soul of jihaad. By this aqeedah the hardships will seem easy and the mountains will seem small. This soul that will accept the love of death and seeking that which is with Allah. It will be raised above minor issues, with zuhd regarding this world. If we attain this soul we would be storms that will let no trace for kufr to remain nor space for oppression.”

Sincerity

Umar bin al-Khattaab relates that: ‘I heard the Messenger of Allaah, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, saying, “Verily actions are by intentions, and for every person is what he intended. So the one whose hijra was to Allaah and His Messenger, then his hijrah was to Allaah and His Messenger. And the one whose hijrah was for the world to gain from it, or a woman to marry her, then his hijrah was to what he made hijrah for.” [Related by Bukhaaree and Muslim.]

This hadeeth is one of the hadeeth around which the whole religion revolves, and it is related from Imaam ash-Shaafi’ee that he said, “This hadeeth constitutes a third of all knowledge.”

Imaam Ahmad said, “The foundations of Islaam are upon three ahaadeeth:· The hadeeth of Umar, ‘Verily actions are by intention’
· The hadeeth of Aa`ishah, ‘Whoseover introduces into this affair of ours that which is not part it, then it is rejected.’
· The hadeeth of Nu`maan bin Bashir, ‘The halaal is clear and the haraam is clear.’”

Ishaaq bin Raahawayah said, “the foundations of the religion are upon four hadeeth:· The hadeeth of Umar, ‘Verily actions are by intention.’
· The hadeeth, ‘The halaal is clear, and the haraam is clear.’
· The hadeeth, ‘Verily the creation of one of you comes together in the stomach of his mother for 40 days.’
· The hadeeth, ‘Whosoever invents into this affair of ours anything which is not part of it, then it is rejected.’”

Abu Ubayd said, “The Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, collected all the affairs of the Hereafter in one statement, ‘Whosoever introduces into this affair of ours that which is not part of it, then it is rejected.’ And all the affairs of this world in one statement, ‘Verily actions are by intentions.‘ Place them in every chapter.”

Abu Daawood said, “I looked into the hadeeth of the Musnad (i.e. of Ahmad) and it consisted of 40 000 ahaadeeth. The I looked again and (found that) the 40 000 ahaadeeth revolved around 4 ahaadeeth:

· The hadeeth of Nu’maan bin Bashir, ‘The halaal is clear and the haraam is clear.’ · The hadeeth of Umar, ‘Verily actions are by intentions’
· The hadeeth of Abu Hurayrah, ‘Verily Allaah is pure, and does not accept except that which is pure. And indeed Allaah ordered the Muslims with that which He ordered the Messengers.’
· The hadeeth, ‘From the excellence of ones Islam is his leaving that which does not concern him.’”

From: The Hadeeth of Intention
Imaam Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali rahimahullah
Jaami ul-Uloom wal-Hikam